The long orange sleeves that rode high up Carmelo Anthony's arms probably covered goose bumps for most of the night. He said he gets them when he hears the Barclays Center crowd chant &quot;Brook-lyn.&quot;

BROOKLYN — While Mike Woodson and Tyson Chandler both pointed to some fatigue as a factor leading to the Knicks’ collapse Monday night, there were mostly no excuses in the team’s locker room.
The Knicks admitted that the Nets outplayed them down the stretch.
“It was a hard-fought game. Our hats go off to them,” Rasheed Wallace said. “They played a good game. I guess they wanted it just a little bit more this evening.”
Added Raymond Felton, “It was still a good game, went into overtime, but they got it.

If he forgot for a moment that he was one of the biggest stars on the Knicks, and looked at things from the perspective of a kid from Brooklyn (which he once was), Carmelo Anthony could appreciate the atmosphere inside the Barclays Center on Monday night.
“Unbelievable. To step back from this and take my Knicks uniform off … just to see that and be a part of that atmosphere is nothing like it,” he said.
Unfortunately for Anthony, he also had to consider the reality of what actually happened on the court.

Even with Tyson Chandler coming off two weak performances, Mike Woodson wasn’t concerned about his starting center entering the game against the Nets on Monday night.
“He’s that type of competitor, so I’m not too worried about Tyson,” the Knicks coach said before the game.
Right away, Chandler’s competitive spirit was evident, as he scored eight points in the first quarter — his best start of the season. And he finished with a career-high 28 points on 12-for-13 shooting in the Knicks’ 96-89 overtime loss.

You can’t just wish a rivalry to suddenly take hold in one 48-minute basketball game. It takes time, and here it will take two strong teams with two great home crowds, in Brooklyn and Manhattan, making it impossible for the visiting team to win.

Fans ambled in early off Flatbush Ave., some dressed in black-and-white, others in blue-and-orange. Even-Steven. They filled the Barclays Center with life and passion, feasted hungrily on the inaugural showdown between two New York City teams who happened to be playing for first place.

Raymond Felton attempted one more shot and made one more shot, or else his shooting numbers in the Knicks’ historic first game in Brooklyn would have been identical to the most infamous shooting line in team history.

The town, at least for one night, belongs to the Nets. With Jay-Z, Beyonce, Mayor Bloomberg and couple of Giants sitting courtside it was the Brooklyn Nets and not the Brooklyn-born Carmelo Anthony that posted a victory on an historic night on Atlantic Ave., not to mention the Atlantic Division.

Gerald Wallace wasn’t finished nagging Carmelo Anthony, not with Nets leading the Knicks by five points and 16.3 seconds remaining in overtime. Wallace, known as Crash, sprinted past halfcourt to catch up with Anthony.

Jay-Z’s 99 problems apparently don’t include the Knicks. At least not anymore.”The city is under new management,â? the rap mogul tweeted after Monday’s 96-89 overtime victory over the Knicks.The Nets are now 3-0 with the minority owner in attendance. He watched courtside next to his superstar wife, Beyonce.

Jason Kidd never made it to Brooklyn with the Nets. He hasn’t gotten there yet with the Knicks, either. Kidd didn’t accompany the Knicks for their hurricane-delayed first regular-season visit to Barclays Center because of back spasms.

“Big-stageâ? Deron Williams, as dubbed by his coach, put the Nets on his back and ran by the Knicks. He was the leader the Nets envisioned when they inked him as their franchise, $98 million player over the summer, picking up as many assists (14) as the entire Knick squad in Monday’s 96-89 overtime victory.

At the end, as the final seconds melted away and the final buzzer groaned, the eerie chant came tumbling down from the upper reaches of Barclays Center. Nothing manufactured about it. Nothing artificial about it.
Brooooooooklyyyyyynnnnnn â?¦

Gerald Wallace dribbled out the clock, and he handed the ball to the referee…

Knicks fans finally got to see Carmelo Anthony start a game at the small forward position last night.
Of course, the circumstances were not what they wanted.
The Knicks went big against the Nets in Brooklyn when Jason Kidd, the man who did more to fuel the Knicks-Nets rivalry than…

The Nets and Knicks finally took their fight for city supremacy to the court in Brooklyn last night.
Give the first round to the Nets.
Thanks to a virtuoso performance from Deron Williams, the Nets came away from their first regular-season game in Brooklyn against the Knicks with a thrilling…

Gerald Wallace admitted he hadn’t been feeling like himself since returning to the lineup following an ankle injury suffered in the season opener. A solid training camp was wasted as Wallace spent more time in the training room than on the court.
“I thought I had a great training…

No Jason Kidd meant the Knicks had to be perfect last night in their historic Brooklyn debut. Center Tyson Chandler nearly was perfect, but Carmelo Anthony struggled in the fourth quarter and overtime, the massive minutes â?? 50:03 â?? getting to him.
The Knicks couldn’t stop the Nets in overtime…

Carmelo Anthony had one message for everybody on his side during the Knicks last timeout in regulation last night. Don’t even think of looking anywhere else.
Anthony was having a monster game. The Knicks’ first game against the Brooklyn Nets was tied. The Barclays Center clock showed 22.3…

Knicks guard Ronnie Brewer recently has been troubled by his surgically repaired left knee, but last night it was his left hand that became the issue.
Brewer left the Knicks’ 96-89 overtime loss to the Nets with 24 seconds left in regulation after dislocating the ring finger on his left…

If you want to go back to the very beginning, it isn’t as far or as hard a trek as you might think. You walk out of Barclays Center, take a left on Fourth Avenue, then walk about 18 blocks, until you reach the old Gowanus House between 3rd…

Brook Lopez knew this was not going to be just another game. Like the rest of his teammates, he came in early to watch film yesterday morning, with Lopez preparing for his matchup with Tyson Chandler, the reigning Defensive Player of the Year.By the time the lights dimmed at…

10 comments on “Knicks Morning News (Tuesday, Nov 27 2012)”

Wow..I can’t believe what I’m seeing and hearing in the media today. Not takin anything away from the Nets..hats off to them. They made plays when they needed to and eventually outplayed us. BUT IT’S ONE GAME!!! Excuse me..the Nets are a better team than the Knicks?? Are some of these people serious?? It took for us to go cold in OT for them to win. Plus we had no Kidd, Stat, or Shump. Even worse..the supporting cast shot horribly. The people in the media that took that one game too far should just wait until both squads are healthy. Still..they’ve had a heck of a start while it seems like teams are starting to figure our Melo-centric offense out. No worries I would say. Brooklyn is a big team..much like Memphis. They’re supposed to out-rebound us and get more blocks than us..at least right now. Maybe when Stat and Shump gets back that changes. My biggest concern right now is the amount of energy Tyson has to spend out there tusslin with bigs since Sheed, Camby and Thomas aren’t getting alot of run. Also I hope this one horrible game by Felton doesn’t get in his head.

In a way I can understand. It helps to encourage a fan base to develop in Brooklyn by putting it that way. I don’t know that any of the members of the local media is astute enough to do that. I have not watched much of Brooklyn this year. To me it seems that Williams and Lopez, while good, seem to lack a certain focus. It was good for that franchise’s sake, once I could figure out that they weren’t chanting bogus or bogans, to hear Brooklyn chants and cheers for them rather than the embarrasment of a half fileld arena 90% full of people cheering for the opposition.

Give the nets credit, they played good defence, but my opinion is that,Felton was tossing too many shots. instead of passing and looking for the open man. It is one game.The knicks have to move on .They played well, but not good enough to win.

Nets are very physical
Evans is a beast!
Nets should not be taken lightly by anyone, so long as they stay healthy
Playing without Kidd is like playing after a lobotomy
Melo needs more rest before the 4th quarter, he was running on fumes for the last 10 minutes
Great, great game to watch, playoff intensity from start to finish

Evan I actually suggest getting him way back June as I thought he polar opposite of Amare. PF defensive specialist that you sub in for Amare in defensive situations. He just doesn’t a lick of offensive skills.

That “brooooook-lyn” thing is arguably the most annoying artificial noise pumped into an arena since the race car sound at old Market Square Arena. They must have played it every 45 seconds.

I wish we had the high ground here, but Madison Square Garden has succumbed to the thunderstick-clapping, shirt-cannon-shooting, music-during-possessions fad that has essentially ruined NBA arena atmosphere. I miss the good ol’ days where the only sound was the occasional organ tune, a timely bass drum thump, and the voice of Mike Walczewski.

Marcus Camby is looking like a bad signing. We’re 13 games into the regular season and he does not have a field goal, is sporting a .174 TS%, can’t get more than 5 minutes of floor time in the second game of a back-to-back and generally looks like the worst player on the roster.

Hubert Davis: That “brooooook-lyn” thing is arguably the most annoying artificial noise pumped into an arena since the race car sound at old Market Square Arena. They must have played it every 45 seconds. I wish we had the high ground here, but Madison Square Garden has succumbed to the thunderstick-clapping, shirt-cannon-shooting, music-during-possessions fad that has essentially ruined NBA arena atmosphere. I miss the good ol’ days where the only sound was the occasional organ tune, a timely bass drum thump, and the voice of Mike Walczewski. Get off my lawn.

What a dummy I was I thought those chants that sounded like Brooklyn after a while were actual fans.

Now that the team isn’t shooting like 75% from 3 and playing defense on fresh legs, a few things that could kind of be ignored during the Best Start Ever are becoming more apparent about this team.

First and foremost, while Raymond Felton may or may not be a competent PG for an elite team (jury is still out if you ask me, and I’d rather Jason Kidd run the offense 10 times out of 10 when the game is close), he is NOT an adequate second scoring option after Carmelo Anthony, at least not for a team that expects to go deep in the playoffs. Not in any way, shape or form, and neither, for that matter, is JR Smith.

This team needs a secondary scoring option who can consistently get 18-20 efficient points (per 36) every night and function as the focal point of the offense and take over the game when Melo is on the bench (or just tired). That person’s name is Amar’e Stoudemire.

flossy: Now that the team isn’t shooting like 75% from 3 and playing defense on fresh legs, a few things that could kind of be ignored during the Best Start Ever are becoming more apparent about this team.First and foremost, while Raymond Felton may or may not be a competent PG for an elite team (jury is still out if you ask me, and I’d rather Jason Kidd run the offense 10 times out of 10 when the game is close), he is NOT an adequate second scoring option after Carmelo Anthony, at least not for a team that expects to go deep in the playoffs. Not in any way, shape or form, and neither, for that matter, is JR Smith.This team needs a secondary scoring option who can consistently get 18-20 efficient points (per 36) every night and function as the focal point of the offense and take over the game when Melo is on the bench (or just tired). That person’s name is Amar’e Stoudemire.